The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1887-03-05
GUILLOTINING A WOMAN.
The First Scene ofthe Kind IN Merry France
in Fifteen Years.

The First Scene ofthe Kind IN Merry France
in Fifteen Years.
PARIS, Feb. "A woman has been
| gullotined in France, for the first time
in fifteen years. The circum, tances at
| tending the execution were horribly re-
Voting, as were also the circumstances
attending the crime. The woman had
murdered her old mother, whom she con-
sidered burden On her. She took every
precantion to insure the success of the
murder. She first saturated the old
wonan's clothing with oil, then set fire
to her. and held her down with long
stick while the decrept old creature was
roasted to death. The old woman cried
| piteously for mercy, bnt the heartless
daugh held her down till she was
burned to crisp And then, to crown
murder with blasphemy, she placed
| lighted candle before the statue of the
| Virgin, as an act of thanksgiving, for the
successful issue of the murder of her
mother. The inhabitants of the town,
Ramortin, in which the crime took place
were thrown into a state of unspeakable
excitement. TIE authorities had much
difficulty to prevent the people from
mobbing the prison and lyuching the
prisoner. A speedy trial-and trials in
France are always speedy-alone salts
| lied the populace. The woman was
promp ly condemned to death.
The French, as is known, are repug-
nant to the death sentence, and French
juries come in for much ridicule. apropos
of ''extenuatIng circumstances. But,
| III this case, the trial was over before
other trials would have been begun.
| Filal love in France is one of the strong
est characteristics of the peasantry. aud
any one who abuses a parent is relert-
leSSly tabooei from society.
In the present instance the repugnance
of the people in regard to the execution
of "a woman was overcome by the atrocity
is opposed to capital punishment on prn-
ciple, and who sends nine out of ten
murderers to New Caledonia ill.,
stead of tc NJ. Deibler's machine,
| signed the death warrant without ques-
| ton.
When the arrival of NJ Deibler be-
came known to the people of the town,
the evening before the execution, the re
was general rejoicing. The people re-
| manned up all uight to witness the exc
cution in the morning. Most of them
were on the ground outside the prison as
early as midnight. When about ) o'clock
in the morning, the lumbril or cart APP
peared bearing the murderess to the
place of execution the assembled multi
tude sent up a joyous shout. The dis
| lance from the jail to the execution
ground was long, but the entire populace
of the town followed the death cortege.
All along the way the people hooted and
jeered, the women especially, and pressed
at times SO threateniugly around the
vehicle that the gendarmes had to draw
their weapons.
On arriving at the fatal spot dead
silence fell on the multitude The wo-
man was ordered to descend from the
vehicle but she did not respond to the
summons. She had tainted. The eff
GERS removed her and carried her to the
guillotine, which was grimly standing in
the morning light. On her way she re-
covered her senses and screamed and re-
sisted. she was promptly placed on the
fatal instrument, with her head thrust
through the GdScule. Her screams were
drowned by the shouts of the assembled
people. They crushed around the in
strumeut despite the efforts of the gen
darmes to keep them back. Mothers
held up their babies and men held up
their little boys at arms length to let
them illness the execution of the MUIR
deress, that they might remember the
lesson for life.
NJ. Deiber, who is humane man, as
far as such may be said Of an executioner,
did not prolong the scene. He touched
the button while the culprit was
screaming aud the assembled people
shouting. The head dropped into the
basket the body was thrown, with tho
discovered head, into wagon, and hur-
ried off to the cemetery. The attendants
of NJ. Deibler washed the blood from the
flags and machine with their sponges
aud the immense crowd returned home
satisfied that Justice had been melted out
to the unnatural dar ghter who had so
cruelty murdered her aged mother. 1t is
seldom such ghasty scene is witnessed
in France.
The Time HonOred Notrs Dame, Balti-
more. Md.
We have had ample opportunity to con-
vince ourselves OF the efficacy of Salvation
Oil We cheertuly submit our names to
the public as reference Respectfully, Sis
| fers of Notre Dame.
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